Best anime this year possibly to my tastes. I enjoy the blend of sci-fi, comedy, and philosophy and I find the characters very appealing. I love the development recently of the duality between Okarin/Kyouma personas and his tragic flaw. Funny, sad, and addictive! Of course the last ep made me say, "Noooooooooooooooo! Mayushi!"

Anyway, I for one am glad that this entire experience is pretty much destroying Okabe, showing us his human side and that he was only curious as to the notion of time-travel. As well as him confronting Moeka.

The direction didn't bother me in this episode, it was solid all around and showed us exactly what we needed to see.

Nothing much in this episode besides the realization of how to save Mayuri being further explained. There is more backstory on Suzuha and an explanation of occurrences in the future. It's more lighthearted than the last two episodes and I found it quite funny. It turns out that Kurisu was also browsing "@ channel" and asking questions. Her aliases were hilarious and then there was Okabe's admittance of his username - Hououin Kyouma.

More teasing of looking for Suzuha's father when most of us figured out that Daru IS the father. If you guys want to know the mother, I'll post it in second spoilers. Overall, it's a light episode compared to 13 and 14 but it's funny which I like in a show like Steins;Gate. I think the moods work perfectly and don't shift instantly.

Suzuha's mother:

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According to my "research", Suzuha's mother is a cosplayer (who is supposedly Mayuri's friend) that met Daru at a con.

I wasn't expecting Suzuha to fail after that warm fuzzy moment. Then the mood changes to a somewhat dark and depressing mood.

I can't drink my Dr. Pepper like this!

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At least they revealed that Daru was in fact the father of Suzuha. It just makes me more sad that she attempts to save the world but is not able to because of an accident. Suzuha blaming herself tore me apart. Ugh, I am depress!

No amount of Tuturu~ can make me happy now. Someone, just take my heart out so I'm apathetic to not only 3D people but also 2D characters!

Further speculations:

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Since the Divergence Meter changed when Okarin jumped world lines, I assume that he will have to keep doing this in order to change the world (?). It appears that Mayuri survives in a different world line and it was painful to see Okabe sort of break down and act recklessly in a way to make Suzuha's sacrifice have a meaning.

1-if okarin cant save mayuri from her death fate then i'll stop watching it. mayuri omg >-< i love her so much, shes so cute and kind
2- if kurisu gets any closer to okarin im gonna kill her -.- lol in my dreams, i hate how obvious she is with her "hidden" feelings for okarin, so if mayuri is out of the picture i dont want her to be with the mad scientist ... i want him with amane in any case or ruka x3

1-if okarin cant save mayuri from her death fate then i'll stop watching it. mayuri omg >-< i love her so much, shes so cute and kind
2- if kurisu gets any closer to okarin im gonna kill her -.- lol in my dreams, i hate how obvious she is with her "hidden" feelings for okarin, so if mayuri is out of the picture i dont want her to be with the mad scientist ... i want him with amane in any case or ruka x3

add this as well the pic below is not fan-art but from the game the series is based off of.. so... heh fun

This show continues to blow my mind and I love it.
I personally loved how

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Suzuha failed, it makes it feel like what they are working for is indeed a very hard thing to do

and i have some speculation points that i want to make

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In episode 1 before Okabe sent the first D-mail Kurisu was dead and after Okabe sent the D-mail it made a new timeline in which Kurisu was alive. So since Okabe has just changed the past so that he never sent that D-mail it makes sense to me that Kurisu will still be dead. Which is allured to in the last scene since Kurisu wasn't in the room.

Also as a side thing i am wondering, If Okabe made a time leap back 1 day from now (being the latest part of this episode) would he go back to the last day he remembered where he was working on the time machine for Suzuha, or would it be 1 day back in the new timeline he has made where he never meats Suzuha. Because if its the latter then he cant go back and change the past where he prevents himself from making the first D-mail since the past simply doesn't exist anymore and because of that it would mean that he cant save Kurisu so she would be dead end of story.

was wrong for the Mayushii part. Her death was actually delayed. From this episode, it seems to be true that the Divergence Meter does change when Okabe changes world lines. From my knowledge of the VN, this is supposedly the Feyris ending. Although I haven't played the VN yet, I think this should had been 2 episodes. Felt a little bit rushed.

That's one my of my problems with Steins;Gate, the side characters don't have many appearances to learn more about them. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this episode, it was a bit moving I guess.

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Painful to know that Okabe's friends would lose their memories each time he jumps world lines. I don't think that's really an issue as Feyris was able to remember the events that had occurred in other world lines. I sense that Okabe is a person who cares for his friends and will attempt sacrifices to help them.

The ending of the episode gives me a strange feeling that

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Feyris may have retained her memories...

Little spoiler of the VN:

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I think the Suzuha end has finished and this episode completes Feyris's end. I don't know how many endings there are but all endings must be completed to obtain the true end if I remember correctly. I believe there were 4 endings - Suzuha end, Feyris end, Mayushii end, and the true end which is actually Kurisu's end.

I don't have speculations but I'm excited to see how the ends would be adapted from mini-spoilers I've read.